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Gulf Arabic Grammar - Verbs, The Past Tense (I)

learn arabic BahrainWhy should you start learning the Past Tense before the Present? Because it is easier. There’s no infinitive form of the verb in Gulf Arabic as there is in English (to be, to have, to do, to go). In dictionaries when looking for a particular verb you will find it in its Past he-form, which is its “most stable” form i.e. he was, he had, he did, he went, etc.

Here are the basic forms: CaCaC, CiCac and CuCaC (e.g. sharab, rimas, wugaf). You will notice that some of the forms lose the second vowel (-a-) – a process called elision in linguistics. Also note that in CaCaC-verbs the she- and they-forms change their first vowel to –i-.

sharab – to drink


sharabt – I drank
sharabt – you (male) drank
sharabti – you (female) drank
sharab – he drank
shirbat – she drank
sharabna – we drank
sharabtaw – you (plural) drank
shirbaw – they drank

sharabna finjaal gahwa – we had (drank) a cup of coffee.


rimas – to talk (a word used primarily in the United Arab Emirates)


rimast – I talked
rimast – you (male) talked
rimasti – you (female) talked
rimas – he talked
rimsat – she talked
rimastaw – you (plural) talked
rimsaw – they talked

rimast wiiyya il-mudiir – I talked with the director.


wugaf – to stop

wugaft – I stopped
wugaft – you (male) stopped
wugafti – you (female) stopped
wugaf – he stopped
wugfat – she stopped
wugafna – we stopped
wugaftaw – you stopped (plural)
wugfaw – they stopped


wugfaw 3ind is-suug – They stopped at the marketplace.


 
 
 


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